Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le projet de défense le plus coûteux de l'histoire américaine a désormais un nom. Le 17 juillet 2026, le Sénat a confirmé la nomination du général Michael A. Guetlein, commandant de la Force spatiale, à la tête du Dôme d'or – le plan du président Trump visant à déployer un bouclier antimissile au-dessus de l'ensemble du territoire américain.
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Britain owns a fleet of the most capable aerial tankers on the market — and cannot use them to refuel some of its own most important aircraft. It is one of the quiet embarrassments of the Royal Air Force, and after fifteen years the RAF has finally said out loud that...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For years the Indian Air Force could see the enemy long before it could hit him. Chinese fighters and airborne radar planes carry missiles that reach out past 200 kilometres; India’s Su-30MKI fleet, its heaviest hitter, had nothing that could match them. That gap is...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the afternoon of 24 November 1971, a quiet man in a business suit walked up to the Northwest Orient counter in Portland, Oregon, and paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle. He gave his name as Dan Cooper. A few hours later he would step out of the back of a...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
It was a calm, clear night over the Indian Ocean on 24 June 1982 when the passengers of British Airways Flight 9 noticed something strange: a glow along the wings, and puffs of smoke curling into the cabin that smelled of sulphur. Up front, the crew watched St...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
A German fighter pilot once emptied his guns into an American P-47, then pulled up alongside to watch it fall out of the sky. It did not fall. Baffled, he flew wing-to-wing with the shredded aircraft, stared at the damage, shook his head, and peeled away. The P-47...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged, the de Havilland company was quietly building a bomber the Air Ministry had not asked for and did not want — and it was making it out of wood. Officials scoffed. Within two years, that wooden aeroplane was the fastest...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, a Scottish teenager was taken flying by a First World War fighter ace. As they landed, the German told the boy two things: learn to fly, and learn German. The boy did both — and grew up to fly more different aircraft than any human...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the film Captain America, the villain escapes aboard a sleek, tailless flying wing. It looks like science fiction. It is not entirely invented: the design is lifted almost directly from a real German aircraft that flew in the last winter of the Second World War...
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